class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # Help with finding help ## <br><br> What they forgot to teach you<br>about <em>teaching</em> R ### <a href="https://wtf-teach.netlify.app/">wtf-teach.netlify.app</a> --- layout: true <div class="my-footer"> <span> <a href="http://wtf-teach.netlify.app/" target="_blank">wtf-teach.netlify.app</a> </span> </div> --- ## Help with `?help` <img src="images/r-help.png" width="50%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> .footnote[ .small[ https://socviz.co/appendix.html#a-little-more-about-r ] ] --- ## (Not so good) help with googling <br> .center[ <iframe width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/6tw5uOth4AY" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> ] --- ## (Better) help with googling <br> .center[ <iframe width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/2sp2isnqoFU" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> ] --- ## Packages designed for help - 📦 **[searcher](https://github.com/r-assist/searcher)** offers preliminary support for automatically or manually searching errors that are generated in R - 📦 **[reprex](https://reprex.tidyverse.org/)** helps prepare a minimal reproducible example by forcing forces students to fulfill the technical criteria so the instructor can focus on the help that only a human can provide --- ## searcher - search for a term <br> .center[ <iframe width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HtSiViKp3nk" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> ] --- ## searcher - search for an error <br> .center[ <iframe width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/krtUaS2zt9g" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> ] --- ## A (not so great) question <img src="images/piazza.png" width="80%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> --- ## A much better question with reprex <br> .center[ <iframe width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/uGcaAJ7ZWEk" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> ]